Luke Thomas: MMA media has ‘responsible conscience’ for a way fighters are handled

Luke Thomas believes the collective MMA media has a responsible conscience concerning the lack of protection devoted to really serving to fighters.

Thomas addressed the media’s normal lack of adversarial protection on the season premiere of Bloody Elbow and MMA Mania’s The Insiders interview collection (video above).

“I feel there are many optimistic tales, I feel there may at all times be extra, however to me, that is the factor that I inform everyone,” the Showtime Digital and SiriusXM character prefaced his argument.

You must take into consideration “each approach” fighters “are hit with a drawback in nearly each occasion,” he argued.

“You must essentially settle for everybody from supervisor to gatekeepers on the state commissions, promoters, to nearly everybody – they’ve the higher hand on fighters in nearly each approach,” Thomas defined. “We pay lots of lip service [to fighters] and we do that dance to them and we exalt them. We exalt them with our phrases as a result of I feel everyone knows now we have a responsible conscience for the best way they’re handled.“

“If you happen to’re going to cowl problems with substance, it’s important to function underneath the context of what the fact tells you. And the fact tells you that the fighters are uniquely deprived in nearly each case,” he concluded. “If you happen to settle for that as your driving principal of protection, that’ll maintain the issue normally.”